World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Burma Revisited

Last week the British made the first
move back into Burma. Announced General Sir Archibald Wavell's
headquarters: "During the past few days some of our troops have
advanced southward from the Arakan border into western Burma. . . . The
enemy . . . withdrew without offering opposition."

The British had pushed some 40 miles down the Bay of Bengal coast toward
Akyab along one of three main invasion routes open to the United
Nations. (The others: southwest from China down the Burma Road, east
from Assam into northern Burma.)